"Goode's Universal Pocket Diary for 1869, containing a list of the London Bankers, Stamp Tables, &c., &c.", printed by T. Goode, Steam Printing Office, Clerkenwell Green, London. The diary, which has a reddish-brown leather cover and gilt page edges, measures approximately 6.6 x 9.8 x 1cm (2.6 x 3.85 x 0.4in). There is a small engraving of a coastal scene for a frontispiece; the name appears to read "View from Killiney Hill", although this is somewhat obscured by the tissue paper in front of the engraving. The diary has been used, not as a diary, but as a general note book; it contains various accounts, lists etc. in pencil (plus others rubbed out), several of which refer to farming and gardening matters, whilst two (perhaps more) refer to "chapel", and a verse concerning life and death (see photo) has been written on the back of the title page. In a pocket at the front of the diary is a Wesleyan-Methodist Society Quarterly Ticket for December 1876, signed "John Lilley" in ink; this ticket is very worn and much creased with marks, discoloration and much wear and tear to the edges. There is considerable age wear to the cover of the diary, including several creases; the front endpaper, frontispiece and title page have become detached, and there may or may not have been another page now missing; the pages show discoloration, marking, slight creasing and edge wear.
SOLD Jan. 2012
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